An invited guest at CSCS User Day 2011 was the geophysicist Jeroen Tromp of Princeton University who, together with other scientists, uses an ingenious method to create a realistic simulation and image of the Earth’s crust and its mantle under Europe. For this the researchers used the data from 160 earthquakes, which they simulated in […]

We continue with our series of scientists explaining their posters presented at CSCS User Day. Samuel Hertig is a PhD student in the Biologically Oriented Materials Laboratory of ETH Zurich lead by Professor Viola Vogel. Samuel won the CSCS User Day 2011 Best Poster Award with the poster on “Engineering mechanosensitive interactions: Lessons learned from […]

The CSCS User Day brought together around 60 users in Lucerne on 23 September. Exciting scientific lectures, lively two-minute personal poster presentations by scientists and discussions were the order of the day in Lucerne . In the next weeks we will present some videos of researchers explaining their posters and the videos of the three […]

The CSCS User Day brought together around 60 users in Lucerne on 23 September. Exciting scientific lectures, lively two-minute personal poster presentations by scientists and discussions were the order of the day in Lucerne. Highlight of the day were three scientific presentations. Jeroen Tromp of Princeton University presented an ingenious method to create a realistic […]